The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Leptostoma

(Cuculidae; syn. Geococcyx † Greater Roadrunner G. californianus) Gr. λεπτος leptos  slender; στομα stoma, ÏƒÏ„οματος stomatos  mouth (i.e. bill); "LEPTOSTOMA, Sw.   Bill very long, entire. Wings very short, and rounded.  Tail long, cuneated.  Tarsus much longer than the toes.  (fig. 172. p. 40.)     L. longicauda, Sw. (1824).    ?the Sauroth. Bottæ Blainv." (Swainson 1837); "Leptostoma Swainson, 1837, Nat. Hist. Classification Birds, II, p. 325.  Type, by monotypy, Leptostoma longicauda Swainson, 1837 = Saurothera californiana Lesson, 1829." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Leptosoma.


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